Professions are also generally exclusive, which means that laymen are either legally prohibited from or lack the wherewithal to practice the profession.

For example, school teachers often refer to their occupation as a profession, even though it is not exclusive (people teach others outside of the traditional school environment), nor is entrance competitive, nor are they self-regulating (laypeople in state legislatures or on boards of education typically set the rules for and regulate teachers).

Profession, in Christian monasticism, is the act of embracing the religious state by the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience according to the rule of a canonically approved religious order; it involves then a triple vow made to God, and binding oneself to the rule of a certain order.

Profession for a long time was made by clothing with the religious habit: the aspirant could personally put on the habit or receive it, with or without ceremony, from the abbot or from the bishop.

In all religious orders, three years at least of simple profession are a necessary condition for the validity of solemn profession, and for lay brothers, six years of simple profession and an age of at least thirty years are required.

It was only the late-model, high-specialty professions that were in demand on the Outworlds, and only a few millions a year out of Earth’s eight billion population could be exported.

Whatever they were, their professions must have made them Earth-bait from the beginning; or else they had made themselves Earth-bait by inefficiency at whatever high-specialized professions they had had.

He would be questioned and his lack of profession would show at once; and before Trevelyan, too, who ached with the pain of the drubbing he had taken and would spread the news back home as a salve for his own hurt feelings.

Many players are disappointed to realize that the ranks they spent in Profession (doctor) don't actually give them the ability to treat an injury, identify a strange infection, or operate a sophisticated medical device.

For most players, their profession is just background color for their character, not something that has much bearing on what they can do in the game.

It's simply easier for those players to put a few ranks into Profession (bartender) or Profession (droid programmer) than it is to figure out which skills actually relate directly to bartending or droid programming.

A profession is a craft or tradeskill that player characters may learn regardless of their character class, faction, or race.

You may 'forget' a profession and start a new one but this removes the chosen profession and if you were to learn it again you would have to start levelling it from a skill level of 1 again.

You can forget a profession from your skills tab (the hotkey is k), click on the appropriate profession, and in the bottom part of the panel is a tiny icon that when moused over will tell you it lets you unlearn your profession.

While its first effect was to encourage planners to leave the profession if they did not think they could make the commitment needed to meet the new standards, it's also meant that the calibre of person coming into the profession is improving.

If the number of planners entering the profession is increasing, and the quality of advice is rising at the same time, it suggests that the new entrants to the profession are doing a better job than those they have replaced.

It might not be going too far to suggest the planning profession will be reborn, and the typical planner will be younger, better educated and more tightly focused on running their financial planning firm in a highly professional way.

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He wrote: “One of the main reasons for studyingeducation as a profession is to demonstrate that the educators themselves have the power to achieve certain vocational objectives which would materially affect the educational objectives and possibilities of the public schools” (1956, page 15).

Professions are intended to serve a special and unique social service; however, for education, the social problems are so broad, encompassing, and unspecific at times that they appear impossible to solve.

The profession, calling, and/or vocation of teaching is too important for them to settle for anything other than real school choices for students, choices that give both teachers and students more freedom to define and select their own learning (or teaching) opportunities.

Although the profession itself grew slowly, its early practitioners such as Olmsted, Vaux and Cleveland were among the first to take part in the town planning movement and to awaken interest in civic design.

The profession continues to evolve as it meets the challenges of a society interested in improving both its quality of life and wise use of the land.

Because a profession is fundamentally about knowledge, however, the true leaders of a profession are the thought leaders: the individuals who synthesize the thinking of the profession's members and articulate directions for the future.

In doing so, you are helping the profession to think out loud about its problems and potentials, and you are also helping to knit the profession together by establishing connections among the people who are thinking about the issues on the horizon.

There is also evidence scattered across the game, in the community page and in the code of other professions of a group of abandoned professions, professions that the Dofus developers apparently began to create and then gave up on.

You can't add a second profession until your first profession is at least level 30, and you can't add a third profession until your second one is also at least level 30.

As the PA profession charts its future, it will have to continue to balance the concerns of physician partners with the need to emphasize the cost savings and value that the profession offers to the new health care model.

The PA profession was seen as a way to improve the supply and distribution of primary care services and extend the practice of a physician.

The PA profession is a mid-career option for many health professionals who bring not only prior clinical experience but also many years of life experience to their work as PAs.

Yet what is most disheartening about the profession's current plight is the gap between the bar's and the public's perception of the problem, and the failure of both groups to confront its underlying causes and the need for structural solutions.

In a profession that is sharply divided and scarcely disinterested, current codes end up reflecting too high a level of abstraction and too low a common denominator of conduct.

The term "profession" has its origins in the Latin root, "to profess" and in the European tradition of requiring members to declare their commitment to shared ideals.

This issue of Profession contains Sylvia Molloy's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2001 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants J. Michael Dash, Mary Louise Pratt,...

This issue of Profession contains Linda Hutcheon's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2000 MLA convention) and the collaborative essays of forum participants Andrea Lunsford, Lisa Ede, and...

This issue of Profession contains Elaine Showalter's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 1998 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Leo Braudy, Carl Djerassi, John Romano,...

The Commission, not the profession, must take a leading role in protecting the public interest; this effort requires a reordering of perspectives and priorities within the profession.

The system we envision must be thoroughly vetted with all major constituencies, and we have advised the relevant Congressional committees that oversee our efforts that we will work closely with them to ensure that the framework we ultimately propose meets their notion of what is appropriate in the interests of investors.

A strong accountingprofession is key to our capital system, and we are firmly committed to assuring that it functions properly, expeditiously and in the public interest.

But the profession also suffers a poor public image, fewer jobs for recent graduates of law school, and a high burnout rate among those who work as lawyers.

Add to this the overwhelming expense--both economic and emotional--of law school, and it is clear applying to law school is not a decision to be made lightly.Whatever your motivation for entering the profession, be well-informed.

While it is intended as a guide for lawyers suffering from burnout in the profession, it is a good idea for those considering the profession to read through it to avoid making the mistakes that produce lawyers unhappy with their career choice.

And despite these mixed feelings, parents are still pleased when their child chooses to become a theologian, teacher, doctor, lawyer, scientist, or professional in one of the many other fields that require years of study, hard work, and continuous learning, and whose duties to society outweigh the making of money.

Despite all the lawyer bashing and jokes, most parents are still pleased when their children choose this profession.

But, more than any other profession, lawyers have a special obligation as guardians of democracy, of the "rule of law", a rational scheme of justice rather than the capricious and arbitrary rule of dictators and monarchs.

The scope of our work is diverse and has evolved from offering only career consulting to people exploring a career change or in transition through job loss.

Our profession offers a wide range of competencies in a wider range of business and personal situations.

Today in over 30 countries our profession will be found operating as independent career professionals, owners or consultants in small and large career service firms; and as consultants inside organizations, universities or community based agencies.

Profession is a journal of opinion about and for the modern language profession.

Accordingly, the editor invites essays of 1,800 to 5,000 words on current intellectual, curricular, and professional trends and issues that are of importance to the field, essays that can be read with interest and profit by many, if not all, MLA members.

Letters to the editor and short comments on articles in the previous year's Profession will also be considered for publication.